I see that you can pass a JSON object to bluestack to start an application automatically as soon as the instance is up from a shortcut. However, my question is can yo do this via the multi-instance manager? It's 3 more icons that I don't have to have and they would start quicker than if you do it individually.
use -vmname
like HD-Runapp.exe -vmname Android_ ...
there is no (readable) table where you can find <Android_instancenumber> - InstanceName
so you will have to maintain your own table
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I want to create CloudWatch alarms automatically on instance launch (via AutoScaling, CLI or whatever).
My instances are running Windows, so I created task in Task Scheduler which executes PowerShell script.
This script uses Write-CWMetricAlarm cmdlet to create CloudWatch Alarms - http://prntscr.com/e6xptj
It works good for custom Metrics like Windows/Default , but for AWS/EC2 InstanceName is required as well - http://prntscr.com/e6xq18
But there's no Dimension for InstanceName - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/ec2-metricscollected.html
.. as well as no suitable parameter for Write-CWMetricAlarm Cmdlet - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/powershell/latest/reference/Index.html
So any ideas about how this issue can be solved?
Thanks in advance!
Instance names are actually just tags (with key "Name") and the console gives them special treatment to make them appear as a first-class item. They also do not need to be unique, so using 'name' wouldn't enable CloudWatch to distinguish between different instances, making things confusing from an alarm perspective.
I think therefore that you need to be using the instance id value. In your script I notice you're using Invoke-Restmethod to obtain it - you might be interested to know you can also get this value using a cmdlet:
Get-EC2InstanceMetadata -Category InstanceId
I have spent a couple of hours search for a solution to disable my Azure Service Bus Topics using Powershell.
The background for this is we want to force a manual failover to our other region.
Obviously I could click in the Portal:
but I want to have a script to do this.
Here is my current attempt:
Any help would be great.
Assuming you're sure your $topic contains the full description, modify the status parameter in the array and then splat it back using the UpdateTopic method. I'm afraid I can't test this at present.
$topic.Status = "Disabled"
$topicdesc = $NamespaceManager.UpdateTopic($topic)
I don't think you'll need to set the entity type for the Status, nor do you require semi-colons after each line of code in your loop.
References
PowerShell Service Bus creation sample script (which this appears to be based off): https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/paolos/2014/12/02/how-to-create-service-bus-queues-topics-and-subscriptions-using-a-powershell-script/
UpdateTopic method: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/microsoft.servicebus.namespacemanager.updatetopic.aspx
Additional note: please don't screenshot the code - paste it in. I'd rather copy-and-paste than type things out.
i want to create New vm's from muliple template's like windows 8,7 and more like that, also want to choose how many i need of that vm.
the full code is here:
link to pastebin
but the thing is i want to do multiple templates at once how can i do that?
i was thinking about an foreach($template in $template){do that}
then im doing template1,template2 but its giving me the error that its just template1,template2 instead of 2 diffrent templates dont know how to seperate that. i thought about the , but i dont know then.
This is not possible, you have to specify one (and only one) template to create a new from template.
You can verify that by running the following command :
Get-Help New-VM -Parameter Template
-Template <Template>
Specifies the virtual machine template you want to use for the creation of the new virtual machine. Passing values to this parameter through a pipeline is deprecated and will be disabled in a future release.
Required? true
Position? 2
Default value
Accept pipeline input? true (ByValue)
Accept wildcard characters? true
As you can see , this -Template parameter takes only one object of the type [Template].
If it were able to take several, we would see :
-Template <Template[]>
But it is the same in the GUI anyway : in the vSphere client you have to choose only one template to create a VM from it.
I am in the process of writing a PowerShell script for backing up a Windows computer using rsync. To this end, I am attempting to use WMI from said script to create a non-persistent Shadow copy with writer participation (as is apparently recommended for backups).
I found out from another question (Accessing Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) Snapshots from powershell) a way to create a shadow copy in general, but the example given there uses "ClientAccessible" as the context parameter, which results in the creation of a persistent Shadow Copy, without writer participation.
While searching for a solution, I have found that I could use the following command to obtain a list of contexts, which I assume are understood by WMI:
Get-WmiObject win32_shadowcontext | Out-GridView
It does the list have a context named "Backup", which is conveniently what I want. I proceeded to attempt creating a non-persistent shadow copy using that context:
$shadow = (Get-WmiObject -list win32_shadowcopy).Create("C:\", "Backup")
However, this seems to fail and the content of the $shadow variable is set to
ReturnValue : 5
ShadowID : {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
According to the relevant documentation (Create method of the Win32_ShadowCopy class), the return value means "Unsupported shadow copy context."
I couldn't find any relevant documentation as to why this context is unsupported or whether it is possible to use it at all. I have also tried the "FileShareBackup" and "AppRollback" contexts without success.
I assume I am either missing something obvious, or that for some reason, WMI really doesn't support anything else than "clientAccessible" when creating shadow copies, or that this is OS-dependent (I am testing this on Windows 7, 64-bit)
How can I get this to work?
Okay, Technoob1984 here with the scoop. See my attached screen shot.
This one is tricky, because you have to use x64 version of Powershell (located under system32 not wow64)
The Shadow Copy Context are the .properties of the object.
Also I used the static method in my screenshots below.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/vsswmi/create-method-in-class-win32-shadowcopy
# get existing shadow copies
$shadow = get-wmiobject win32_shadowcopy
"There are {0} shadow copies on this sytem" -f $shadow.count
""
# get static method
$class=[WMICLASS]"root\cimv2:win32_shadowcopy"
# create a new shadow copy
"Creating a new shadow copy"
$class.create("C:\", "ClientAccessible")
# Count again
$shadow = get-wmiobject win32_shadowcopy
so in the example there, you would want to use $class.Properties to see what you can use as a Shadow Context.
See my screen shot:
So Shadow Context is 'Caption, Count, Description' and anything else under the 'Name:' value of .Properties. I do not see 'Backup' as one of the options.
Enjoy
Your $shadow has a 5 on return value looking at the error message, your shadow id has all zeros , you would need to add a 1 or a 2 to the end of the volume shadow copy in the registry using binary or dword.
find the folder in the registry named volsnap in your regedit search .volsnap.sys is found in the C:\Windows\System32\drivers directory. The file size is 52,352 bytes.The volsnap file contains Microsoft's digital signature make sure its the correct bytes.
This confirms its authenticity. volsnap.sys appears to be a file that was compressed by an EXE-Packer. This technique is often used by trojans to keep the file size small and also hamper debugging efforts.
However, this in itself is not sufficient reason to presume malicious intent, since even well-intentioned, professional software producers take advantage of compressed files. For this reason, 2% of all experts consider this file to be a possible threat. The probability that it can cause harm is high. Please consider the additional Comments from other users.
shadow id default
00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000005
if it already has a 5 which it probably doesn't change it to 1
or create new code
Shadow id $shadow 00000000-0000-0000-0000-0000000000001
not exactly as shown.you may have to try different wording I'm not sure if $will work, if not, try the js standalone version.
How to create a view using the clearcase command mode? How to create it?
mkview -tag mainr2 \\ccaseind\viewstore\mainr2.vws
I even tried these too
mkview -tag mainr2 //ccaseind/viewstore/mainr2.vws
when i execute these command it says unable to create directory followed with unable to create view?What command should i follow? and how to create a view? also tell me the use trigger types, attribute types, html types in Clearcase.Thank you in advance
You would use a Windows-style UNC path, so: \\ccaseind\viewstore\mainr2.vws
You can see example of dynamic and snapshot view creation in the question "How do I create a snapshot view of some project or stream in ClearCase?"
(just remove the -stream argument which is used by UCM)
For a snapshot view, in your case, you are missing a -vws in front of the shared path.